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>> i think that 90's, so the holbrook generation always had in mind the disaster in vietnam. it's not that they were necessarily, and i warned people they weren't really of the left wing of the democrat party sometimes they campaigned against left wing but they had to deal with vietnam. the second generation comes of age after the end of the cold war. america has no competitor it's america's unipolar moment and america is at the peak of its posterity. >> rose: hillary clinton, robert gates. >> gates i would call of the vietnam generation, tom donald and certainly curt campbell, michelle, floyd -- >> rose: his wife. >> right. and the obamians have an entirely different range of experience. they're not even, they're not, they are teenagers or in one case not even born when the vietnam war ended. >> rose: that's ben rhodes. >> dennis mcdougha, president obama. >> rose: you argue he is in fact running foreign policy. >> i did. >> rose: and his voice, his drive, his ideas. >> i do. i mean he's certainly like everyone else, i find he was more actively involved in the day to day det
>> i think that 90's, so the holbrook generation always had in mind the disaster in vietnam. it's not that they were necessarily, and i warned people they weren't really of the left wing of the democrat party sometimes they campaigned against left wing but they had to deal with vietnam. the second generation comes of age after the end of the cold war. america has no competitor it's america's unipolar moment and america is at the peak of its posterity. >> rose: hillary clinton,...
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. >> rose: richard holbrook wrote a chapter on him. what is it you want us to know. >> how tragic it was, that he really didn't fit in with the obama team, that they, he never had the scope to do what he wanted but in addition, that there was a generational conflict there as well. that he really, he saw himself as the central figure in afghanistan and other people in the administration, and then including the president didn't. and really it was just not a good fit. so actually, i mean i had people say, we had a meeting on afghanistan and holbrook came in and began talking about vietnam and finally we were all rolling our eyes. i had the u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice not of holbrook but saying we're just so sick of the psychosis of the 60's. so he really didn't want -- >> rose: many people thought u.s. involvement in iraq of george bush 41 would have said that he ended the vietnam syndrome. >> right. that's right and not just george bush but democrats going way back to gary hart i'm past vietnam. in the odd perspectiv
. >> rose: richard holbrook wrote a chapter on him. what is it you want us to know. >> how tragic it was, that he really didn't fit in with the obama team, that they, he never had the scope to do what he wanted but in addition, that there was a generational conflict there as well. that he really, he saw himself as the central figure in afghanistan and other people in the administration, and then including the president didn't. and really it was just not a good fit. so actually, i...
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holbrook was protected by his loyal friend, secretary of state hillary clinton. so what happened was for more than a year, both sides just fought very bitterly, very acrimoniously, holbrook would be excluded from meetings, denied the use of government aircraft. holbrook would convene gatherings that didn't have all personnel in them. it was childish. our government is supposed to be better than this. but this in-fighting that i detail came at a real cost. we had a window when we were surging troops in there, when we had real leverage. i'm not trying to say the taliban were waiting there on the other side of the table, you know, ready to negotiate. it was always going to be a tough path to get there. but we could have tried to at least had a unified policy and moved forward with trying to find an honorable way to end this conflict with fewer lives lost. instead, senior officials of our government who should have been working together on the same team at times were more consumed with fighting one another than fighting against the common enemy. >> the tragedy of afg
holbrook was protected by his loyal friend, secretary of state hillary clinton. so what happened was for more than a year, both sides just fought very bitterly, very acrimoniously, holbrook would be excluded from meetings, denied the use of government aircraft. holbrook would convene gatherings that didn't have all personnel in them. it was childish. our government is supposed to be better than this. but this in-fighting that i detail came at a real cost. we had a window when we were surging...
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it involved personalities, secretary of state hillary clinton's point man, richard holbrook didn't get along with white house decisions, key members of the nt's war cabinet. instead trying to fund a way to essentially broker their differences a very nasty acrimonious fight. more to do with substance than how people behaved in meetings their style, mannisms it involves very -- at times childish efforts to under cut them. i recall one scene in the book some of the president ' advisors tried to exclude holbrook from an oval office meeting once he was excluded they planned to slip the president talking points to say everybody in this room represents me, and has my trust, the suggestion, being that holbrook didn't have his trust. it was foiled at the last minute when secretary clinton insisted he attend but they were obsessed with fighting with some body who was supposed to be on their team the result is that we squandered more than a year when we had maximum leverage, increasing troops when we had real momentum, in the war effort, we didn't seize upon it. earlier on when the president sign
it involved personalities, secretary of state hillary clinton's point man, richard holbrook didn't get along with white house decisions, key members of the nt's war cabinet. instead trying to fund a way to essentially broker their differences a very nasty acrimonious fight. more to do with substance than how people behaved in meetings their style, mannisms it involves very -- at times childish efforts to under cut them. i recall one scene in the book some of the president ' advisors tried to...
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the veteran diplomat richard holbrooke who died a year and a half ago. he was in charge of trying to manage the overall diplomatic strategy. really try to push towards getting to negotiations with the taliban. a very difficult challenge. this is a guy who had ended fighting in the balkans. a real diplomatic heavyweight. there were senior officials in obama's white house who just didn't like him. it was very personal, acrimonious fight. what happened was their infighting essentially stalled american policy in trying to come up with a plan to get to negotiations. it wasn't like the taliban were sitting at the other end of the table. this is what they were seeking to do. what i detail in this book is the real nasty infighting that got very personal. excluding holbrooke from meetings. forbidding him from using government planes. trying to slip talking points to the president of the united states after excluding holbrooke from a meeting with president karzai. >> childish stuff that came with a steep price. >> we had troops on the ground, fighting, dying to tr
the veteran diplomat richard holbrooke who died a year and a half ago. he was in charge of trying to manage the overall diplomatic strategy. really try to push towards getting to negotiations with the taliban. a very difficult challenge. this is a guy who had ended fighting in the balkans. a real diplomatic heavyweight. there were senior officials in obama's white house who just didn't like him. it was very personal, acrimonious fight. what happened was their infighting essentially stalled...
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and what i detail in this book is the real nasty infighting that got very personal, excluding holbrooke from meetings, forbidding him from using government plains. trying to slip talking points to the president of the united states after excusing holbrooke from a meeting after a meeting with president karzai. childish and petty stuff. >> that came at a stiff price? >> yes, we had soldiers dying trying to beat back the taliban and trying to get to peace talks. however difficult and elusive they were was a key part of what president obama wanted. this was something that the president wanted and, in fact, both sides in this fight wanted the same goal. they were just caught up in a personality clash. >> and you're also saying that we wasted a year in afghanistan during which time we spent money, american troops lost their lives because of the surge strategy itself. >> yes. so you would think when the president authorizes more troop, we'd be sending those troops to the places that are the most critical parts of afghanistan, that are the most important to beat back the taliban to protect the
and what i detail in this book is the real nasty infighting that got very personal, excluding holbrooke from meetings, forbidding him from using government plains. trying to slip talking points to the president of the united states after excusing holbrooke from a meeting after a meeting with president karzai. childish and petty stuff. >> that came at a stiff price? >> yes, we had soldiers dying trying to beat back the taliban and trying to get to peace talks. however difficult and...
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you right about richard holbrooke. the diplomat. he died. memorial service. one of his sons talked about his father and said, i'm quoting you, his father wasn't around to teach him to throw a ball or to watch his games but as he grew older he realized holbrooke's absence was the presence of saving people around the world, a price worth paying. i think your point was, as a woman i read that and said, gosh, if the roles were reversed, the perception would be she was a bad mother, she was selfish, she was a failure. even though she was out saving the world. now, how do we change that? because that seems to be society and how we raise boys and girls to think about parenting. >> yes. and there i think you partly many, many more men, as are happening, are making the same choices, to spend more time. so that you think about this as a work/life balance for men and women. but there are still lots of stereotypes we have to change. why do we talk about working mothers and not working fathers? >> right, that's a good point. >> that's a pretty basic point. if you started
you right about richard holbrooke. the diplomat. he died. memorial service. one of his sons talked about his father and said, i'm quoting you, his father wasn't around to teach him to throw a ball or to watch his games but as he grew older he realized holbrooke's absence was the presence of saving people around the world, a price worth paying. i think your point was, as a woman i read that and said, gosh, if the roles were reversed, the perception would be she was a bad mother, she was selfish,...
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abuses, the second was the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation, which is what holbrook brilliantly did at dayton. the third is the concept of atrocities prevention and what madeleine albright and others did is to bring this forward, the president has now signed a directive on atrocities prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. then finally, democracy building. as a longer term antidote, the community of democracies and other kinds of devices. so these were horrible episodes. but i think what it did was it triggered structural change which is one of the hardest things to get in the human rights area. >> go ahead. please. >> make a point. i agree with what harold said. i think there's another factor that's evolving but it's evolved very fast and that's international attention. in effect, rowan da was remote, out of the way. not well-attended to. slow rolling in the public while it was rapidly rolling in the disaster. so that, i think, held things back. on the other hand, darfur had more -- than peacekeeping capacity. it had early press attention which was c
abuses, the second was the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation, which is what holbrook brilliantly did at dayton. the third is the concept of atrocities prevention and what madeleine albright and others did is to bring this forward, the president has now signed a directive on atrocities prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. then finally, democracy building. as a longer term antidote, the community of democracies and other kinds of devices. so these...
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. >> again the movie "all the president's men" hal holbrook plays the part of mark felt, deep throat, and robert redford plays the part of bob woodward and then dustin hoffman, carl bernstein. let's look at a little clip. they're in the garage, it's dark, and we'll come back. >> the garage, by the way is in rosslyn, virginia. >> right over the bridge from where we're sitting. let's watch this. >> the coverup had little to do with watergate, it was mainly to protect covert operations. it leads everywhere. get out your notebook, there's more. your lives are in danger. >> hi, i finally got someone on the phone. ♪ ♪ >> any evidence that their lives were threatened? >> not really, although the book "all the president's men" alludes to the fact that deep throat made such a representation. i really don't think their lives were in danger. >> what do you say to your students, they're getting history off of hollywood, which you say is often wrong. >> or exaggerated or, you know, made to -- >> and we watch, as you point out, the media loves to give itself prizes and awards, and they perpetua
. >> again the movie "all the president's men" hal holbrook plays the part of mark felt, deep throat, and robert redford plays the part of bob woodward and then dustin hoffman, carl bernstein. let's look at a little clip. they're in the garage, it's dark, and we'll come back. >> the garage, by the way is in rosslyn, virginia. >> right over the bridge from where we're sitting. let's watch this. >> the coverup had little to do with watergate, it was mainly to...
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. >> rose: the late holbrook was worried about that, that the world was shifting, particularly afghanistan and the exclusion of diplomacy. do you have some concerns about that? >> i wouldn't say to the exclusion, but certainly -- >> rose: imbalance, perhaps. >> well, i think by most definitions, the power, the presence, the resources of the military are quite disproportionate to what, you know, we can field through the state department and u.s.a.i.d. but what has happened in the last tech decade in iraq and in afghanistan has been, you know, quite important. the growing appreciation and cooperation between our military, our comes-- diplomat and development experts -- call it the three d.s of forepolicy-- and both bob gates and leon panetta were real champions of this because they recognized if we weren't working as an american team, we were going to get out of balance pup know, it's not been an easy relationship because there are different culturees, different expectations about what we're work for, what kind of result we're seeking. but with we've learned to not just coist but cooperate i
. >> rose: the late holbrook was worried about that, that the world was shifting, particularly afghanistan and the exclusion of diplomacy. do you have some concerns about that? >> i wouldn't say to the exclusion, but certainly -- >> rose: imbalance, perhaps. >> well, i think by most definitions, the power, the presence, the resources of the military are quite disproportionate to what, you know, we can field through the state department and u.s.a.i.d. but what has...
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think of lincoln, they think of the, depending on their ages, raymond massey or henry fonda or hal holbrook or gregory peck or others who have played lincoln in the movies. >> furthermore, it's well known that the more a man speaks, the less he's understood. ( laughter ) >> lincoln has in fact been used almost from the days of his assassination to sell products. we have lincoln logs. for a younger generation, "ted and bill's excellent adventure" includes lincoln. he is just one of those figures, if you're selling a product, that's synonymous with integrity whether it's an automobile or insurance or a remedy for sleep deprivation. >> honest abe. >> absolutely. honest abe. everyone wants lincoln on their side. almost everyone can devise a rationale to justify that. we go on debating who he is, what he really believed, and how it influences our politics and our culture to this day. >> sreenivasan: and that story is not over. >> that story is far from over. we deliberately wanted an unfinished quality about this museum, about the story that we're telling here. because the one thing we know is t
think of lincoln, they think of the, depending on their ages, raymond massey or henry fonda or hal holbrook or gregory peck or others who have played lincoln in the movies. >> furthermore, it's well known that the more a man speaks, the less he's understood. ( laughter ) >> lincoln has in fact been used almost from the days of his assassination to sell products. we have lincoln logs. for a younger generation, "ted and bill's excellent adventure" includes lincoln. he is...
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holbrooke was brought to to try to see if they broached a peace deal and get them in the path of negotiations. he had his flaws, but this was his mandate. the folks at the white house could not abide by him doing that and they thought he was going to hog the glory. petty stuff that blocked him from using military aircraft and the meetings at one point he is i bush appointee and hamid karzai comes in and condocket a plan and try to slip the president's talking point and everyone represents me and has my trust of. >> for those of us lucky enough to know richard, they kept it from a meeting. >> even richard would be represented, i think as well as anybody. on the air, create a most defensive of sending troops into iran. off the air he was completely different. we hear that and that's not just richard. that is official washington coming on the show saying one thing on the air and off air going i don't know how we win. >> i detailed the process in the white house with regard to the president's announcement on the troop drawdowns. at that point the cia finished conducting an assessment of every dis
holbrooke was brought to to try to see if they broached a peace deal and get them in the path of negotiations. he had his flaws, but this was his mandate. the folks at the white house could not abide by him doing that and they thought he was going to hog the glory. petty stuff that blocked him from using military aircraft and the meetings at one point he is i bush appointee and hamid karzai comes in and condocket a plan and try to slip the president's talking point and everyone represents me...
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know, governor romney has not begun to reflect on that, but it is basically a program that ambassador holbrooke opened up before he died and it is a very substantial set of activities associated with building institutions come influencing population, etc. then you add in the credibility of the president himself, and in some regions of the world, it was a lower after president bush. >> a couple of responses on that. first, on popularity, if you look at the pure research polls, he has gotten an uptick in the muslim world partially because of afghanistan and i have a very different take. i have spent time in afghanistan. i think there are a couple of points that need to be made. one of which is the good that was done by the increase in resources, all of which had been put in place by this administration to predecessor. when the military talks about plans, it is true to task with a lot of logistical infrastructure, preparing units, a training unit. this was all under way. i know that. and give the president credit. the thing the president did which ended at been tremendously destructive in terms of
know, governor romney has not begun to reflect on that, but it is basically a program that ambassador holbrooke opened up before he died and it is a very substantial set of activities associated with building institutions come influencing population, etc. then you add in the credibility of the president himself, and in some regions of the world, it was a lower after president bush. >> a couple of responses on that. first, on popularity, if you look at the pure research polls, he has...
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this was a vicious and petty and personal thing, and it involved richard holbrook, who was part of the obama senior national security team at the white house. we were more concerned with fighting each other over very small and personal things as opposed to broader policy. what it meant was that we essentially wasted the first year of a promised troop surge. a moment of maximum leverage to pursue negotiations with the taliban and try to sort out car way members of the insurgency that have been fighting our troops and the afghan people. jenna: it is interesting to see the words tribal politics. not about the afghan people, we are talking about our own government. what you are describing, does that cost lives? >> i think ultimately there was a cost in lives. look, the cost is that we have 90,000 troops here today. they are fighting incredibly hard, serving honorably, they deserve the best washington in supporting them. the other big problem was -- the first group of troops we sent largely to parts of the country that weren't as important as other places. i detailed this in the book. how t
this was a vicious and petty and personal thing, and it involved richard holbrook, who was part of the obama senior national security team at the white house. we were more concerned with fighting each other over very small and personal things as opposed to broader policy. what it meant was that we essentially wasted the first year of a promised troop surge. a moment of maximum leverage to pursue negotiations with the taliban and try to sort out car way members of the insurgency that have been...
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mark hole burg is a columnist and editor of the holbrook financial digest. and one more bearish than the other, michael, let me kick off with you. you have the $44 price targets on facebook, so by far the more bullish of the two. how concerned are you that brick taylor, we now learned is leaving facebook, the chief technology officer and a very prominent player recently in public for that particular giant. >> first, i want to say i'm a big fan of mark's, so whatever he says i probably will agree with, losing a senior guy is a bad thing, so you certainly don't want to be -- it looks like rats jumping off a sinking ship. in this i think you have probably a millionaire who stated he wants to go out and try something new. i think it's incumbent for the company -- mark zuckerberg is the cto, we know he runs the show. anything on fortunately they have thousands of engineers behind taylor, so you know there's somebody who is capable who will step up, but you don't want to see a senior guy leaves. i think they have to vet senior executives and make sure these people
mark hole burg is a columnist and editor of the holbrook financial digest. and one more bearish than the other, michael, let me kick off with you. you have the $44 price targets on facebook, so by far the more bullish of the two. how concerned are you that brick taylor, we now learned is leaving facebook, the chief technology officer and a very prominent player recently in public for that particular giant. >> first, i want to say i'm a big fan of mark's, so whatever he says i probably...
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started the first munk debate in 2008 with a big wind with charles krauthammer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of is the world a safer place with a republican in the white house? [laughter] [applause] can he ladies and gentlemen make it too for once a night? we will say this, undeniably brain sale for it brain cell he was one of the most formidable debater of his generation. he is also a celebrated harvard professor and "the daily beast" "newsweek" columnist, a film and diverse area and best-selling author. our own niall ferguson. [applause] now to my immediate left our second debaters speaking in favor of tonight's motion brings a vital perspective. the view of the german people on the fast-moving eurozone crisis. he is the publisher of the prestigious german weeklies iced, germans at equivalent of "time" magazine are canada's own maclean's, the author of numerous best-selling books of geopolitics including goober power, america's material temptation and his analysis of geopolitical events appears regularly in "the new york times" in the new republic and the
started the first munk debate in 2008 with a big wind with charles krauthammer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of is the world a safer place with a republican in the white house? [laughter] [applause] can he ladies and gentlemen make it too for once a night? we will say this, undeniably brain sale for it brain cell he was one of the most formidable debater of his generation. he is also a celebrated harvard professor and "the daily beast"...
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the munk, the very first, in 2008, with a big win with charles crouthimer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of the world being a safer play with a republican in the white house. can he, ladies and gentlemen, make it two for one tonight? we'll say this. undenyably brain cell for brain cell he's one of the most formidable debaters of his generation. he's also a celebrated harvard protester, a daily beast news week columnist, a documentary film emprisaro, and internationally best-selling author. our own niall ferguson. [applause] >> to my immediate left our second debater speaking again in favor of tonight's motion brings a vital perspective, the view of the german people on the fast moving euro zone crisis. he is the publisher of the prestigious jerman weekly, germany's equivalent of "time" magazine or canada's own mclean's. he's the author of numerous best-selling books on geopolitics, including uber power, america's imperial temptation, his analysis of geopolitical events appears regularly everywhere from "the new york times," the new republic, he lon time
the munk, the very first, in 2008, with a big win with charles crouthimer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of the world being a safer play with a republican in the white house. can he, ladies and gentlemen, make it two for one tonight? we'll say this. undenyably brain cell for brain cell he's one of the most formidable debaters of his generation. he's also a celebrated harvard protester, a daily beast news week columnist, a documentary film emprisaro, and...
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this happened at the same time the carter administration came into power with a commitment which dick holbrooke told me he invented or convinced carter to adopt. >> one of about 40 things. >> and they told me it's true so i checked it. i checked the source. . they agonted a change in foreign policy from the nixon, ford, kissinger anti-communism to a new policy in which the united states would stand up on behalf of abused citizens in another countries. if you as a foreign government abused your own citizens, you -- your relationship with the united states would be severely affected. and that's what human rights is. what it changed from the enormous debates and wars that mark and pat were fighting in 1977, to seeing last night the secretary of state standing up tall in ankara and really excoriating the syrians for their horrible, horrible actions in shelling and murdering their own people. that's human rights. >> you are a young man, you are working in the political realm, you have this backdrop that we are supposed to care about this stuff. what happens, and what do you do about it? >> it's magi
this happened at the same time the carter administration came into power with a commitment which dick holbrooke told me he invented or convinced carter to adopt. >> one of about 40 things. >> and they told me it's true so i checked it. i checked the source. . they agonted a change in foreign policy from the nixon, ford, kissinger anti-communism to a new policy in which the united states would stand up on behalf of abused citizens in another countries. if you as a foreign government...
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the second is the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation which is what holbrooke brilliantly did in dayton and in the third is the concept of atrocities prevention, which madeleine albright and bill cohen and others did was to bring this forward the president has now signed a directive on the prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. and then finally, democracy building as a longer-term antidote, the community of democracies and other kinds of devices. so, these were horrible the episodes but i think what it did is triggered structural change which is one of the hardest things to get in the human rights area. >> i agree with what herald said. i think that there's another factor here will probably is evolving that's evolved very fast and that international attention. in effect, rwanda was remote out of the way, not what tended to slow rolling in the public while it was rapidly filling in the disaster, so that i think all the things back. only a other hand, darfur had more press attention than it had peacekeeping capacity and add more early press atten
the second is the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation which is what holbrooke brilliantly did in dayton and in the third is the concept of atrocities prevention, which madeleine albright and bill cohen and others did was to bring this forward the president has now signed a directive on the prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. and then finally, democracy building as a longer-term antidote, the community of democracies and other kinds of devices. so,...
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the second was the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation which is what holbrooke brilliantly did at deyton. and the third is the concept of atrocities prevention which -- and what madelyn albright and bill cohen and others did was bring -- madeleine albright and bill cohen and others did which was sign a directive -- atrocities prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. and then finally democracy building. as a longer term ant doket -- antidote. and so these were horrible ep societies but what i -- episodes but what i think it did was trigger structural change which is hard in the era. >> i agree with what harold said. i think there is another fact, harold, that probably is evolving but evolved very fast and that's international attention. in effect, rwanda was remote, out of the way. not well intend -- well-attended to. and so on the other hand, darfur had more press attention than it did peacekeeping capacity. and it had early press attention which was complicated by very late deployment. so in fact it wasn't the sovereign answer, but it was a piece
the second was the notion of diplomacy backed by force leading to a negotiation which is what holbrooke brilliantly did at deyton. and the third is the concept of atrocities prevention which -- and what madelyn albright and bill cohen and others did was bring -- madeleine albright and bill cohen and others did which was sign a directive -- atrocities prevention board for exactly the kind of early warning. and then finally democracy building. as a longer term ant doket -- antidote. and so these...
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but it is basically a program if you look at the work that ambassador holbrooke opened up before he died, and then the state department is caring on. so very substantial set of activity associated with building institutions from influence population, et cetera. end and incredibly of credibility of the president himself in the vast reaches of the world of credibility that was very low under the second president bush. i think a powerful program. >> a couple responses. first on popularity. if you look at the pew research poll, it really is not the case we have gotten this tremendous bump up in popular, particularly -- that is partly because of things like -- afghans eyesight is very different take. i spent a lot of time in afghanistan. and i think there are a couple of points that need to be made. one of which is that the good that was done by the increase in resources, including troops cut by the way, all of which you can put an end by this ministration predecessor. i was part of -- object. >> biplane, when the military talks plan, as you know, it's true to that. a lot of logistical infras
but it is basically a program if you look at the work that ambassador holbrooke opened up before he died, and then the state department is caring on. so very substantial set of activity associated with building institutions from influence population, et cetera. end and incredibly of credibility of the president himself in the vast reaches of the world of credibility that was very low under the second president bush. i think a powerful program. >> a couple responses. first on popularity....
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started the first munk debate in 2008 with a big wind with charles krauthammer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of is the world a safer place with a republican in the white house? [laughter] [applause] can he ladies and gentlemen make it too for once a night? we will say this, undeniably brain sale for it brain cell he was one of the most formidable debater of his generation. he is also a celebrated harvard professor and "the daily beast" "newsweek" columnist, a film and diverse area and best-selling author. our own niall ferguson. [applause] now to my immediate left our second debaters speaking in favor of tonight's motion brings a vital perspective. the view of the german people on the fast-moving eurozone crisis. he is the publisher of the prestigious german weeklies iced, germans at equivalent of "time" magazine are canada's own maclean's, the author of numerous best-selling books of geopolitics including goober power, america's material temptation and his analysis of geopolitical events appears regularly in "the new york times" in the new republic and the
started the first munk debate in 2008 with a big wind with charles krauthammer defeating the late richard holbrooke and samantha power on the question of is the world a safer place with a republican in the white house? [laughter] [applause] can he ladies and gentlemen make it too for once a night? we will say this, undeniably brain sale for it brain cell he was one of the most formidable debater of his generation. he is also a celebrated harvard professor and "the daily beast"...